“It’s a myth that marketers chose their occupation because they got C’s in school” (hat tip to Church of the Customer)
Category: Marketing
A Plethora of ProductCamps
The ProductCamp movement seems to be picking up steam. Last year there were 3 such camps in total, in Silicon Valley, Austin and Toronto. So far this year, there have [ … ]
Gilbert and Sullivan present: The High-Tech Product Manager
I’ve always liked the Major General’s song from The Pirates of Penzance. If you are not familiar with the song, first watch the two videos at the bottom of this [ … ]
New PM Resources Page
We’ve added a Resources page to the blog. It is meant as a repo for useful groups, associations, forums etc. for Product Managers, Marketers and others interested in the topics [ … ]
Help the Twitter Product Manager
Only a couple of days left before the survey ends. The survey will close at 11:59 PM EST on Friday April 17, 2009. Let’s face it, we ALL like FREE [ … ]
The problem with “find an unsolved problem…”
The common wisdom for developing new products, goes something like this: Find an unsolved problem or an unmet need Identify who values that need Build a profitable solution for that [ … ]
The Lowdown on “Social Media” pt. 4
The Circle of Life So we’ve come full circle, with technology finally starting to catch up to how we’ve interacted with each other since the dawn of time. Marketing and [ … ]
The Lowdown on Social Media pt. 3
Customer Service. How can we ignore you? Back in 2000, I was living in California and had a cell phone from Sprint. I was having a lot of problems with [ … ]
The Lowdown on “Social Media” pt. 2
The Way Back Machine To understand Social Media better, it’s important that our frame of reference start further back then the 1940s. It cannot start with the age of “mass [ … ]
The Lowdown on “Social Media” pt. 1
Take a look at the following video, and then read the rest of this blog post. OK…now read the rest of the post. Don’t cheat. If you didn’t watch the [ … ]